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im sorry,,,, u are always being asked questions,,,, but who is perlita

Oh, no problem, anon. She’s the older woman who hired Lupita and she was there along with Panchito (and of course Val) to try to calm Juls when they found out about the kidnapping. Juls even went to her to ask about a loan or a job when she thought she had the medical bills to pay.

Most recently, she’s the one who took Juls in after she left Lupe.

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I love that this is a novela and the formula is good guys end good, that’s the standard, I’ll always be grateful for them making a wlw relationship when it could have been pretty easy to go with an het couple

You know, I think this might legit be one of the reasons behind why Juliantina is so good. 

Telenovelas lean into romance and so-called cheesiness and straightforward stories in a way a lot of other media thinks it’s too good for. English-language media’s so cynical and seems to hate for people to be happy and left satisfied. Combine that with some weird obsession with needing to be shocking and unpredictable and you get TV that’s hard to watch as a character-lover. 

That doesn’t mean that all telenovelas–or indeed, all makers of this kind of media, so Bollywood, kdramas–will automatically do well by their LGBT characters or relationships, there’s still so many other biases to get over, but once they include them, there’s hopefully not the same need to include a stray bullet twist where the victim is all too obvious. 

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omg anon,just made people think that juliantina,flozmin,and brazilian couple clarina e limantha have set too high a standard *yo muero* *cries in spanish*

I don’t know that last one at all? If it’s good, I’ll watch. And I’m still lucky to have Flozmin left.

But man, I feel like it’s going to be really hard to get over Juliantina. It’s telling that people don’t even necessarily want another season or spinoff because what made this special will be so hard to capture again. And even if by some unprecedented miracle, these actresses with their phenomenal chemistry were cast opposite each other again, there’d be no guarantee that the writing and directing would be there. The acting, writing, directing, every necessary component came together in the best way to make this one story so good. 

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Anon who watches and talks about Juliantina with her Mom here!! My Mom told me something that I did not know after we watched Lupe’s reaction to Juliantina. When I came out to her, about a year ago, she was confused but all she said was okay as long as I’m happy she is happy because that’s all she wanted but in our culture it’s not easy to accept and I was shocked that it was so easy with her. What I didn’t know was she went through a whole thing with our extended family and literally…

…purge all the ones that she knew would say or do something to shame me for it. I was wondering why we didn’t go to this and that’s person children’s birthdays and now I just want to cry. She felt even more strongly after watching that scene because as a mother you need to protect your child and not to be the one hurting them. If it’s something you don’t understand, than you need to learn from them. She know wants to adopt Juliantina and I don’t know how I can deserve such a Mother???

Oh wow, that makes me want to cry! I love your mom, that’s such a kind thing of her to do. Mine, at least, and so many others, are so image-conscious and try to bend their kids to fight society’s expectations, while your mom took steps to keep you safe. That’s really, really great, and you’re so lucky.